NSW faces $2b hole on roads as states fight infrastructure cuts

Samantha Hutchinson, Mark Ludlow, Tom Rabe and Gus McCubbing

Nov 15, 2023 – 8.05pm

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NSW has been left facing a $1.8 billion funding hole across a slew of desperately needed regional road projects and upgrades after the federal infrastructure funding shake-up that will force states to contribute at least half the cost of major projects.

State premiers and senior ministers spent Wednesday in talks with their federal counterparts laying out their infrastructure priorities, ahead of finding out a final list on Thursday of projects that will continue as planned and others that have their federal funding axed.

Samantha Hutchinson is the AFR's National Reporter. Most recently, she was CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Before that, she covered Victorian and NSW politics and business for The Australian, the AFR and BRW Magazine.

Mark Ludlow writes on politics, energy and infrastructure based in Brisbane.

Tom Rabe is the WA political correspondent, based in Perth.

Gus McCubbing is a journalist at the Australian Financial Review in Melbourne.